On: A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)

[makeitdouble]

From the outside, unironically calling any group of politicians "fathers" feels so weird. I know it's a super common turn of phrase, and that's kinda what gets me.

> Human beings generally want to feel like they're doing more good than bad

We're experts at convincing ourself that what is beneficial to us is also "good", whatever this actually means.

[Andrex → makeitdouble]

We can either rage against the era we were born into, or we can accept what we can change and what we cannot. One path leads to less frustration than the other. Be careful that you don't find yourself enjoying irritation.

[rpmisms → makeitdouble]

It's because they created a nation from whole cloth.

Also, forefathers is a common term.